Anti-vaccine zealots are responsible for a global public-health crisis

Wednesday

Jan 22, 2014 at 12:06 PMJan 22, 2014 at 3:35 PM

The kooks should have THIS on their consciences (but probably don’t):

[T]he prevalence of measles in Europe — especially Britain — and the U.S. Measles is endemic in the underdeveloped world because of the unavailability of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine.

But in the developed world it’s an artifact of the anti-vaccination movement, which has associated the vaccine with autism. That connection, promoted by the discredited British physician Andrew Wakefield and the starlet Jenny McCarthy, has been thoroughly debunked. But its effects live on…

Vaccine panic also plays a role in the shocking incidence in the U.S. of ...

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The kooks should have THIS on their consciences (but probably don’t):

[T]he prevalence of measles in Europe — especially Britain — and the U.S. Measles is endemic in the underdeveloped world because of the unavailability of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine.

But in the developed world it’s an artifact of the anti-vaccination movement, which has associated the vaccine with autism. That connection, promoted by the discredited British physician Andrew Wakefield and the starlet Jenny McCarthy, has been thoroughly debunked. But its effects live on…

Vaccine panic also plays a role in the shocking incidence in the U.S. of ...